Best way to clean
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HungryGhost
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Try some water and baking soda. Make a paste and rub it with your fingers. Good luck.
djramey1975
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Appreciate it.... Got it soaking in water at the momentTry some water and baking soda. Make a paste and rub it with your fingers. Good luck.
wolf-n-wa
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Salt Water Silver Cleaning
Silver coins from salt water enviroments can be very tough to get clean. The build up, and the black just won't come off it seems with any one method. The ship wreck coins usually go through many different treatments including electrolysis, which I don't care for as it tends to like to pit...
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Even if not from salt water, should still work nicely!
hoser
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I have tried the water and soda paste thing. It does work pretty good. Hope to see how it turns out.
markinswpa
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The cruddy ones I soak in lemon juice over night then use a paste of baking soda and spit. Usually works pretty well.
Rasyfromwayupnorth
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I have no idea if this would help anybody, but here it goes anyway: some people don't scrub any of the old coins that could be valuable. What they do is to remove just the soil and other dirt from the coin, but not aggressively, then place the coin in a glass bowl or cup, cover the coin with oxygen peroxide, and let it sit in there for about 12 hours. Then one can chip-off some of the heavy stuff with a wooden toothpick. You may have to do the same for the other side of the coin, since the oxygen peroxide may not have flowed underneath. Oxygen peroxide does not damage the patina.
By the way, long ago when living in Northern NY I started detecting with a Teknetics metal detector, and found several musket balls dating back to the Battle of Lake Champlain. Some of the coins included modern Canadian and US silver coins, and also a couple of large cents, and at least one half-cent. Both the large and half cents looked like new, except for the natural dark color of brass or copper (?), so I washed them, and then covered with a layer of liquid floor wax. Yes, I probably destroyed their value, but they look quite pretty, nice and dark brown color underneath of the shiny wax. Back then I had no idea about how to clean and preserve coins and relics, including buckles and buttons. I found some of those too, and all look clean and shiny
By the way, long ago when living in Northern NY I started detecting with a Teknetics metal detector, and found several musket balls dating back to the Battle of Lake Champlain. Some of the coins included modern Canadian and US silver coins, and also a couple of large cents, and at least one half-cent. Both the large and half cents looked like new, except for the natural dark color of brass or copper (?), so I washed them, and then covered with a layer of liquid floor wax. Yes, I probably destroyed their value, but they look quite pretty, nice and dark brown color underneath of the shiny wax. Back then I had no idea about how to clean and preserve coins and relics, including buckles and buttons. I found some of those too, and all look clean and shiny
